Monday, May 27, 2013

We Remember and We Honor

We fly the flags and we sing the songs for all of our fallen.

"No Man's Land" is a song written in 1976 by Scottish-Austrian singer-songwriter Eric Bogle about a young man who died at the age of nineteen in World War I. In his words, It's a song that was written about the military cemeteries in Flanders and Northern France. In 1976 my wife and I went to three or four of those military cemeteries and saw all the young solders."
According to the song and the grave stone, Willie McBride died when he was nineteen years old. I never met him.

I never met this young man, either -- a casualty of World War II. He died in the South Pacific when he was also nineteen years old.

WELCOME

We, our communities, our nations, and our world are at our wits' end. This blog and witsendmagazine.com can help us pull back from the edge to a safer place of harmony and sustainability.You are an essential part of this task.Join us.

The paths we choose

are best when traveled together.

We Can Do It

"Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has."-- Margaret Mead